New King James Version
Job 14:4
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!
Job 14:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
- New International Version (NIV)Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? There is not one.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Who can bring purity out of an impure person? No one!
Context of Job 14:4
2He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue. 3And do You open Your eyes on such a one, And bring me to judgment with Yourself? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? No one! 5Since his days are determined, The number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits, so that he cannot pass. 6Look away from him that he may rest, Till like a hired man he finishes his day.
Read all of Job 14Job 14:4 word by word
מִֽי־יִתֵּ֣ן טָ֭הוֹר מִטָּמֵ֗א לֹ֣א אֶחָֽד׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 14:4
- Job 15:14“What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous?
- Job 25:4How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman?
- Genesis 5:3And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
- Psalms 51:5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.
- Psalms 90:5You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
- John 3:6That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
- Romans 5:12Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
- Romans 8:8So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Ephesians 2:3among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
- Luke 1:35And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.
Commentaries on Job 14:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Who can bring a clean thing - This verse is thus rendered by the Chaldee: "Who will produce a clean thing from man, who is polluted with sins, except God, who is one?" By Coverdale thus: Who can make it cleane, that commeth of an uncleane thinge? No body. The text refers to man's original and corrupt nature. Every man that is born into the world comes into it in a corrupt or sinful state. This is called original sin; and is derived from fallen Adam, who…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Who can bring a clean - thing “out of an unclean?” This is evidently a proverb or an adage; but its connection here is not very apparent. Probably, however, it is designed as a plea of mitigation for his conscious frailties and infirmities. He could not but admit that he had faults. But he asks, how could it be expected to be otherwise? He belonged to a race that was sinful and depraved. Connected with such a race, how could it be otherwise than that he…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. A plea in mitigation. The doctrine of original sin was held from the first. "Man is unclean from his birth, how then can God expect perfect cleanness from such a one and deal so severely with me?"Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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